The actor-producer-filmmaker, Shashi Kapoor, will be presented with the Dada Saheb Phalke Award on Sunday by Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley at a special ceremony at Prithvi Theatres in Juhu in western Mumbai.
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Amitabh Bachchan, who starred with Kapoor in blockbusters such as Deewar and Kala Pathar , filmmaker Shyam Benegal, a Phalke award winner who collaborated with the 77-year-old actor in Kalyug and Junoon , are likely to be present, along with the entire Kapoor family. Due to space constraints in the auditorium at Prithvi Theatres, which Kapoor managed after his illustrious father Prithviraj Kapoor, certain media restrictions have been imposed, sources at Prithvi Theatres said.
Kapoor could not travel to New Delhi when the national awards were presented by President Pranab Mukherjee because of ill health.
